Kyle
Rumors were hot and heavy on the internet Wednesday about the next generation Playstation console. According to many sites including TFTS the next generation Playstation console will be called Orbis. TFTS was quick to point out that the Latin word Vita, the name of Sony’s latest handheld system, is life. The Latin word Orbis, means circle. Perhaps Sony is working on a “circle of life” concept with the next generation console and handheld.
The most important details to the reader are probably release date and pricing. Well we are far away from pricing but if sources are correct we would see the Playstation Orbis in time for the 2013 holiday season so about a year and a half from now.
The console system is said to rock an AMD x64 CPU and an AMD Southern Islands GPU. That will give it the capability of playing games at a resolution up to 4096×2160 (how much is the tv going to cost to support that???). It’s believed that the PlayStation Orbis will support 3D gaming out of the box.
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The rumors we are hearing that you’re not going to like are that the next generation PlayStation won’t be backwards compatible so no playing PS3 games. We’re also hearing that like the rumored Xbox 720, the PlayStation Orbis won’t fully support used games. TFTS suggests that we may see some kind of system that allows users to play used games as “previews” and then allows you to purchase a download code to unlock the used game.
Publishers and game studios may be inline with this idea of not playing used games, however the U.S’s two biggest video game retailers Best Buy and GameStop both use used game sales to off-set the low margins in both console systems and newly released games. Those guys do have a bit of a voice.
What do you think? Would you get a system with these many restrictions? Tell us in comments.
